Friday, August 6, 2010

Is that you Universe? Or is this just a lame Friday Postscript

Ok book ... stop being coy with me.  When I mentioned earlier that your author (Paulo Coelho), you (The Alchemist) and a line in you was a bit coincidental, I wasn't try to spark real conversation with you.  But no, your Englishman on Page 72 had to break open with this bit of dialogue:
...

"There's no such thing as coincidence," said the Englishman, picking up the conversation where it had been interrupted in the warehouse.  "I'm here because a friend of mine heard of an Arab who ... "

And you, the book go on to say,

But the caravan began to move, and it was impossible to hear what the Englishman was saying.  The boy knew what he was about to describe, though:  the mysterious chain that links one thing to another, ...

Wow, look, either that book was calling to me through a mysterious chain that links one thing to another, which I do believe I noticed and described through my own observation in my previous post, or we are just coincidently on the same page.  Isn't that sorta saying the same thing in a different way?  Never mind, I sorta see the difference.  I get it, hell I was already marveling at it on my own before you so sweetly verified my musings.  So, Universe, do you have something to add, or did you just want to remind me that you are always there brushing shoulders with me?

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2 comments:

  1. Haunted in that house of yours.. isn't it.

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  2. You sure do read books with funny words. Mine are more simpler and they have foldouts.

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